Motiur Rahman Nizami

Motiur Rahman Nizami (born 31 March 1943) is a politician of the Jamaat-e-Islami party of Bangladesh who was formerly a leader of the militant Al-Badr group during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Biography
Motiur Rahman Nizami was born in Pabna in the Bengal Presidency of British India on 31 March 1943. Nizami rose through East Pakistan's branch of the Jamat-e-Islami party in the 1960s and he opposed the independence of Bangladesh during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. He became the leader of the Al-Badr Pakistani paramilitary forces that were responsible for the massacre of Hindu communities and pro-independence people as well as the rape of Bengali women. Nizami was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1991, but in 1996 he lost his seat to the Awami League and he was briefly arrested for corruption in 2008. In 2013, he was then charged with war crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War.